Someone broke into a home in the 1500 block of North Ross Street in Santa Ana June 29, climbed onto the top bunk where an 8-year-old girl was sleeping, sexually assaulted her and disappeared into the night after the screams of the girl's 13-year-old sister in the bottom bunk awoke their father.

But police claim Damian Anthony Reyes left something behind that led to the Santa Ana 26-year-old's arrest today.

It turns out Reyes has a record for DUI and drug possession, and his DNA was collected during previous stays in jail and rehab.

The Santa Ana Police Department released a sketch of the girl's attacker, but the trail went cold until the Orange County crime database matched DNA left at the scene with Reyes', according to the agency.

His home address is about two miles from the North Ross Street residence. Police do not believe he knew or was related to the victim.

Reyes, who was held in lieu of $1 million bail at Santa Ana City Jail, was booked on suspicion of felony burglary and child molestation. For now, because investigators are trying to determine if he can be linked to other similar crimes. Anyone who believes they may have been a victim is asked to call Orange County Crime Stoppers at 855.TIP.OCCS.

Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before "graduating" to OC Weekly in 1995 as the paper's first calendar editor. He has contributed as a freelance editor and writer to several publications and been the subject of or featured in several reports online, in print and on the radio and television. One of countless times he returned to his Costa Mesa, CA, home with a bounty of awards from a journalism competition, his wife told him to take out the trash.